Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results

Kagi has a lot of features that seem “neat”. In fact, their pitch and feature set was enough to convince me to sign up. However, I haven’t been wowed by the service. I do not find there to be a noticeable difference above or below any other search engine I have used (all of which I would rank about the same).

I’m curious what other Kagi users are doing or finding that makes their experience so overwhelmingly positive. Is there some workflow I’m missing that’s required to get stupendous results? Are other search needs better met by Kagi that are missed by other search engines? Have others also felt a lack of “wow”?

A clean page of results that the search engine deems best [i.e., no antagonistic commercial interest driving priorities] for the query and the ability to block domains - that was enough for me. ‘Summarize this page’ is useful as well.

I search a lot. Heavy heavy searching. Kagi's no-BS approach to search gets me to relevant results much faster than any other search engine. And the ability to down-rank or block unreliable sources only sharpens that experience.

I have used, and continue to try on occasion to keep my opinions updated, all the big search engines. DDG, Bing, and Google. The search experience is really not there for me in those 3. Bing consistently produces poor results, DDG is a bit better but I still have to manually sift through poor quality results to get what I want, and Google makes me scroll past a lot of bloat and ads first to get to quality results, with more ads interspersed throughout.

I like being able to search, get my quality results, and move on with my life. That's worth paying for to me.

Do you find that this actually saves you time, and that you get to your desired search result faster? These sound like great features to me, but I haven’t found them translating to less time spent searching.

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Same experience here. I used to try Kagi from time to time back before they cut down the free tier and the results seemed fine but not particularly noteworthy. The lack of ads is of course nice, but having all of my searches tracked under a single login gives me a bad feeling, especially with a company with such a manic and AI focused product strategy. They might be trustworthy now, but we've seen so many companies start out ethical and then change course once the money gets tight or they get more greedy.